Crestor offers little benefit and offsets it with costly side effects. But you wouldn’t know this from drug-company propaganda.

Airborne Health, makers of a top-selling product marketed as a cold prevention and treatment remedy, signed a $7m (£4.5) settlement on Tuesday to settle false advertising claims levelled by 32 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia.

The settlement bars the company from claiming that any of its products fights germs, treats cold symptoms or prevents colds, flu and infections unless it can back up those claims with “reliable and competent scientific evidence”. Airborne was not able to supply such evidence.

The approval of aspartame was the most contested in FDA history. The sweetener was not approved on scientific grounds but because of strong political and financial pressure. Aspartame was ‘discovered’ in 1965 by Searle, a Chicago drug company. The FDA finally approved aspartame in 1981, even though scientific research had clearly shown that aspartame caused brain cancer in lab animals.The tests Searle used to determine the safety of aspartame were severely flawed. Searle used unscientific lab practices, falsified data and withheld crucial information during the FDA approval process. Because aspartame caused brain tumors in lab animals, it poses a real cancer risk to humans as well. Cancer is increasing in western countries and will soon be the leading cause of death.Aspartame (E951) is now used in more than 6000 products and millions of people worldwide use the sweetener on a daily basis. In addition to causing cancer, aspartame also causes many other health problems including obesity, diabetes, migraines, brain diseases, ADHD, etc.The US Department of Health has recorded 92 (!) symptoms following complaints about aspartame. In fact, over 80% of all complaints filed with FDA are aspartame related! http://www.321recipes.com/symptoms.html Some of the brand names for aspartame:
NutraSweet, Equal, NatraTaste, Canderel, Spoonful, Equal-Measure, etc.Aspartame is used in any of the following products:
Sugarfree, Light, Diet, Zero (Coke, Sprite & Fanta), Coke 007, Pepsi Max, Crystal Clear, Low-Calorie, Crystal Light, No Sugar Added, Sportlife, Stimorol Ice, Stimorol Fusion, Freedent, Mentos, Smint, etc.

Aspartame breaks down into three components:

1. Methanol : This is the poisonous kind of alcohol. Once in the body, methanol breaks down into formaldehyde, which is a poison.

2. Phenylalanine : This decreases the amount serotonin in your brain, which leads to mood swings (depressions) and an increased appetite! This is why aspartame is one of the main causes for the current obesity epidemic.

3. Aspartic acid : This is a neurological toxin comparable to MSG.

Do your self a big favor and remove this poisonous chemical out of your diet for 60 days and discover how your health will improve dramatically!

Federal officials have fined Exxon Mobil more than $6 million after it violated a three-year-old agreement to decrease air pollution at four of its refineries.

Electric utility PacifiCorp has tentatively agreed to remove four dams from the Klamath River, in a deal that would end one of the West’s most rancorous water disputes and could serve as a settlement model for similar fights.

A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked Royal Dutch Shell from drilling oil wells off Alaska’s North Slope after finding that the Interior Department had failed to conduct an environmental study before issuing the company’s drilling permit.

Siemens has offered to pay about $800m to settle accusations it breached anti-corruption laws in the US, in a move that could lead to the largest ever fine on a company accused of overseas bribery

US authorities fined the German engineering group Siemens a record $800m (£523m) yesterday to settle a long-running bribery and corruption scandal….The US settlement, after a year of negotiations and plea bargaining, sees Siemens pay the US department of justice about $450m (€350m) to settle charges of bribery and trying to falsify corporate books. The securities and exchange commission (SEC), the market regulator, will receive another $350m (€270m) on similar charges under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The DoJ said it was the biggest such case it had ever seen in “scope and magnitude”.

The government has been accused of trampling on individual liberties by proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables. Under the regulations, bailiffs for private firms would for the first time be given permission to restrain or pin down householders. They would also be able to force their way into homes to seize property to pay off debts, such as unpaid credit card bills and loans.

Chrysler said Wednesday it is closing all 30 of its manufacturing plants for a month starting Friday .

Confronting an increasingly competitive environment around the globe, the major oil companies now face legislation that aims to use them to help keep corrupt regimes abroad from stealing their own people’s oil wealth.

The buyout of BCE, which owns Bell Canada, collapses because of the amount of debt involved.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday that it will pay up to $54.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the world’s largest retailer of failing to grant workers their full rest breaks and requiring hourly employees to work off-the-clock in Minnesota.

The retailer said it will pay from $352 million to $640 million to settle lawsuits over wages and work rules.

Some 100,000 current and former hourly employees of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores in Minnesota – and the state of Minnesota itself – will share up to $54 million from the giant retailer under a settlement announced Tuesday.

The chief executive of Weatherford International said Thursday he and his company headquarters will move from Houston to Switzerland, joining at least two other top Houston oil services executives in seeking closer proximity to emerging oil producing regions overseas. Halliburton Co. relocated its top executives to a Dubai headquarters in 2007 and offshore driller Transocean has announced plans to move to Geneva.

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